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Uzo Aduba Is Pregnant, Expecting First Baby With Husband Robert Sweeting
How Uzo Aduba Is Celebrating Her Emmys Win
Uzo Aduba is about to be a new mom.
The Orange Is the New Black alum debuted her growing infant bump at the Tony Awards on June The year-old—who tied the knot with filmmaker Robert Sweetingin September —was seen cradling her bump while posing for pics on the red carpet in an orange three-piece Christian Siriano pantsuit.
After the surprise award show show, Uzo also shared her excitement about her recent role.
"What a blessing," she wrote alongside June 11 Instagram video of her holding up a onesie. "My husband Robert and I are so joyful to enter this next chapter together as parents. I am beyond thrilled. I get to be someone's Mommy!"
The Mrs. America star added, "I realize as the three of us continue to expand, our only, ONLY objective will be to devotion you, little one. My goodness. Look what God has done."
The couple's adorable news comes a small less than two years after the Emmy winner announced she and Robert had married in a private ceremony.
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Uzo Aduba found love when she was least expecting it. "I was so sure that it just wasn't going to transpire because it was challenging out there on these streets," the actress recalled to PEOPLE.
Noting that she was "career-focused" and content with being single, Uzo was taken by surprise when she fell for the esteemed filmmaker, Robert Sweeting, whom she crossed paths with at a rooftop bar in Midtown Manhattan.
"He made me feel safe," Uzo reflected. "I felt safe to be all of myself around him — not the best of myself, all of myself, my frailties, my vulnerabilities, my weak, ugly parts. I felt safe enough to show him that. And when he saw it, he still loved me. I never, and still never, doubted that he loved me."
Robert, who is best known for directing The Entertainer and Guns Down, has been a major source of support to Uzo in recent years and has accompanied her to several high-profile events, including the Tony and Primetime Emmy Awards.
The duo, who are notoriously private, confirmed that they had married in a top-secret wedding, which took
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'Orange Is the New Black' actress Uzo Aduba shares love for Samira Wiley, why she missed her wedding
&#; -- Uzo Aduba was unable to go to "Orange Is the Recent Black" co-star Samira Wiley's wedding, but she isn't hiding her joy.
"I was in Atlanta, I had to film a movie," Aduba told People magazine. "But everybody kept texting me pictures."
Wiley wed "OITNB" writer Lauren Morelli Parade 25 in Palm Springs, California. Aduba gushed over the couple.
"I love them," she said, adding that she had just talked to Wiley the date before. "Those women are the best."
Wiley, who plays the beloved Poussey Washington in the hit Netflix series, shared photos on Instagram of the ceremony and the subsequent honeymoon bliss, so those who couldn't attend had no trouble sharing in the happiness.
Aduba, who spoke to People at an event where she received the Point Courage Award for her LGBT advocacy, also praised the couple's operate for the LGBT community.
"They're doing so much, enjoy the Point Foundation does here, bringing visibility and their mission so that young people have the opportunity to realize
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